Mad Hatters & tea parties24 Sep 2018 00:00
Theresa May has a talent verging on genius for choosing and listening to the wrong advisors.
It has been forgotten that she surrendered a workable Tory majority by calling a disastrous general election on the advice of Nick Timothy, who wrote the manifesto attacking the party's core vote, the property owning middle class, by proposing taxes of hundreds of thousands of pounds to pay for later life care.
And it was Olly Robbins, who tried to "bounce" the cabinet into accepting the Chequers agreement by giving them just a few hours to absorb the details of the most critical political decision since 1939.
When Davis and Boris realised they had been tricked, they resigned. And what happened to Robbins? He was given a £20,000 bonus?